How much do you like your computers and video games? How would you feel if there were only boys in your class and it wasn’t proper for girls to learn math? It might seem amazing not doing math and reading homework but at least that’s better than learning to do housework (which includes washing a year old sock with your bare hands that turned up under a bed at home). Then let the boys charge in front of the girls. Ada Lovelace passed that line and became what people think as the first programer.
Ada Lovelace was born on the day December 10, 1815 in London with the name Augusta Ada Byron. She was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet with a super bad temper, and Anne Isabella Milbanke. Lord Byron and Milbanke life together was not a very happy one. They would fight a lot of the time. A few months after Lovelace was born her father left and Lovelace never saw him again. Later when Lovelace was older, Lovelace’s mom brought her to the British industry midland to see the newest factories and machines built. Little Lovelace was most fascinated with the automotive weaving loom. Sadly when Lovelace was eight years old in the year 1823 her Dad died in Greece. Lovelace’s education got pushed more toward math and science because Lovelace’s dad wouldn’t get in the way as a poet.
Because Ada Lovelace’s dad’s temper was so bad, after Lovelace’s father died her mother made sure little Ada was pushed toward math and science to close of a poet's emotional side, so little Ada didn't get mad so easily. Ada’s mother got her private tutors who made sure that Ada doesn't sway to poetry. Ada’s mother really hoped that that would stop Ada’s dad’s unpredictable temper from erupting in Ada. Sometimes Ada was even forced to lay for a long period of time because Ada’s mother thought it would give Ada self control. In her education Ada sometimes receives instructions from William Frend, a social reformer, William King, the family doctor, and Mary Somerville, a scottish astronomer and one of the finest mathematician of that time period. Over time Ada Lovelace became friends with Mary Somerville. They discussed modern mathematics and Somerville would send her high level math problems. In the year 1832 when Ada was 17 years of age, she meet Charles Babbage who sparked her interest in programming and the difference machine.
In 1833 Lovelace became aware of a piece in French called Sketch of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine: By Charles Babbage. Ada translated the text to english and added a whole bunch of her own thought which turns out to be more than the whole book. Her work was published in the year 1843. Ada started loving Charles Babbage’s work who was a English mathematician. Ada sent her mother letters. In one of them said, “I believe I posses most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature,” the letter was sent in the year 1841, “I can throw rays from every vast corner of the world into vast focus. Remember that Ada loved the automotive weaving loom. Well those machines put the hand weavers out of work. The gang of them are called the Luddites, the Frames, the Breakers, or the Snappers. Since Ada and Babbage were making the difference machine which is automotive. The Luddites were pretty mad at them at that time.
Ada Lovelace and William King, a doctor, had their wedding on a summer day in July of 1835. Later in the year 1838 William King became the Earl of Lovelace which is how Ada Byron became Ada Lovelace. Lovelace had three kids between the year 1836 and 1839 called Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham, Lady Anne Blunt, and Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace. After a bout of Cholera in the year 1837, Lovelace had trouble with asthma and her digestive system. Ada Lovelace started working on math again with professor Augustus De Morgan of University College in London. But later Lovelace turned to gambling on horse races and the losses put her to dept. Lovelace died of cancer at the age 37 on the day. November 27, 1852. After Ada died people called her the first programmer and because of her help in our history the US Department of defense in the year 1980 named a computer language “Ada” after her.
Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage’s difference machine might as well have been the first computer just without a screen. If Ada Lovelace’s Mom and Dad never had her then you might have to wait a few more years for your computer and video games. So because of Ada’s help you have your precious tools (fine, and video games).
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